High school sports: PHOTOS: Columbus Dispatch athletes of the weekĪfter an 0-4 start to the season, Reynoldsburg rebounded with four straight wins to get back in playoff contention and lost to No. Both teams played Olentangy Berlin and Dublin Coffman in the regular season to intriguing results - Liberty beat both Berlin and Coffman by big margins, while Jerome lost to Berlin by one point and lost to Coffman in overtime. 7 seed Dublin Jerome (6-4) will be one of the most interesting first-round matchups.
The first two rounds are hosted by the higher-seeded teams, with neutral sites beginning in the regional semifinal round.īailey Johnson: With playoffs underway, here are central Ohio high school sports standouts Divisions V, VI and VII will play on Saturday nights. The action starts on Friday night with Divisions I, II, III and IV. More than 60 central Ohio teams have made the postseason, running from some of the state's biggest teams like Marysville and Upper Arlington in Division I to Division VII standouts Newark Catholic and Berne Union. On Sunday, the Ohio High School Athletic Association released the first-round pairings for all seven divisions, with eight games per region in the first year of the expanded playoffs. After 10 weeks of regular-season play, the high school football playoffs are set.